Killings: Youths protest in two LGAs in Imo and demand an end to Ebubeagu operations

Youth in Oru East and Oru West Local Government Areas of Imo State on Wednesday protested against the alleged killing of 14 youths in Otulu and Awomamma communities by suspected officers of Ebubeagu.

State Governor Hope Uzodimma had said on Tuesday that those killed were bandits and not wedding guests, but the protest against the security team began with the blocking of the Owerri Highway/ Onitsha with the corpses of those who died. .

The protest continued on Wednesday as the youths stormed Mgbidi, the seat of the Oru West LGA Council, and Omuma, the seat of Oru East LGA respectively.

Young people carried placards with different inscriptions calling for the dissolution of Ebubeagu.

The blockade at the entrance to the headquarters of the two communes has hampered the movement of people inside and outside the communes.

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An eyewitness who pleaded not to be named said the youths were grieved by the killing of their colleagues allegedly by Ebubeagu officers.

Uzodimma, in a statement released earlier in Owerri by his chief press secretary and media adviser, Oguwike Nwachukwu, said on Tuesday that the government had been briefed on the incident by the director of the Department of Public Services. 'Status (DSS) in the meantime. report made available to members of the State Security Council.

The governor said the director of the DSS confirmed that his men had carried out an operation in a camp in the Awo-Mamma community with the help of their informant, and not in a wedding ceremony as the youths claimed so, adding that it was in the process that some bandits were killed.